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Looking for game rec for extended downtime due to illness (piefed.ca)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Bo7a@piefed.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Mods - I am not sure how to read the rule against game suggestions. If it means no asking for suggestions please just wipe the post. No harm, no foul.

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Fall is usually my busiest time of year preparing for winter in our little forest home. But I have been given orders from the doctors to basically take bedrest for up to 3 months, but I'm allowed to be sitting up... So books and games are basically all that is on the menu.

I enjoy automation games, tower defense, survival/building games, and exploration games.

I dislike 'souls-like' experiences where combat is tight and requires perfect timing. In fact in most games where combat can be disabled I usually do that.

My top games of all time would be factorio, minecraft, WoW/FFXIV (yeah... i know. But they count as one), Dyson sphere program, vampire survivors (and many of that type), and gemcraft type TD games.

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Some games that have been recommended and tried, but don't work for me right now or I have already finished:
mindustry, satisfactory, valheim, no man's sky, alchemy factory, luanti, terraria.

Thanks in advance for your time. Much appreciated.

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[–] nightlily@leminal.space 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

GregTech New Horizons mod pack for Minecraft. There’s thousands of hours of automation entertainment there.

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm I have been out of MC for a while. I'll definitely check this out. Thanks.

[–] Supercrunchy@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't be discouraged by the starting difficulty and ridiculous crafting chains (laugh at how ridiculous they are instead). There's plenty of quality of life in there to make it less painful.

I would suggest to start with the 2.9 beta instead of 2.8.4, they improved a lot of the painful things at the start of the game.

Btw if you don't like combat absolutely play in peaceful and change configs to make it less dark or straight up cheat items in if it becomes too grindy for you.

It's a 2000 hour journey not a sprint and there's plenty of content even if you cheat in resources or (tier-appropriate) items.

A similar modpack I am playing and I can reccommend is Star technology. It's a gregtech-based skyblock mod. It's very nice if you think GTNH is too painful.

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah! It will be one of the firsdt ones I try today. I like a grind. I don't like a rush. This sounds perfect.